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      El "lugar" de los pobres: espacio, representaciones sociales y estigmas en la ciudad de México Translated title: The place of the poors: space, social representations and stigmas in México City

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          Desde una perspectiva que entiende la pobreza como un fenómeno sumamente complejo y socialmente construido, se analizan las relaciones entre las dimensiones social, espacial y simbólica de la privación y la desigualdad urbanas. A partir de narraciones de residentes en una localidad periférica de la ciudad de México, se explora cómo concibe la sociedad a los pobres y la pobreza y cómo se relaciona con ellos. Se destaca que las experiencias, las percepciones y las imágenes de lugar están marcadas por estigmas territoriales y por concepciones que tienden a culpar a los pobres de su situación. Se resalta la naturalización de la desigualdad y sus altos niveles de aceptación en la sociedad mexicana, enfatizando sus consecuencias negativas para la convivencia social.

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          A perspective that understands poverty as an extremely complex, socially constructed phenomenon is used to analyze relations between the social, spatial and symbolic dimensions of deprival and urban inequality. The accounts of residents of a peripheral locality of Mexico City are used to explore how society perceives of the poor and poverty and how it relates to them. The author points out that the experiences, perceptions and images of place are marked by territorial stigma and conceptions that tend to blame the poor for their situation. She highlights the naturalization of inequality and its high levels of acceptance in Mexican society, emphasizing its negative consequences for social coexistence.

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            Sampling in qualitative research. Purposeful and theoretical sampling; merging or clear boundaries?

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            Sampling is a very complex issue in qualitative research as there are many variations of qualitative sampling described in the literature and much confusion and overlapping of types of sampling, particularly in the case of purposeful and theoretical sampling. The terms purposeful and theoretical are viewed synonomously and used interchangeably in the literature. Many of the most frequent misinterpretations relate to the disparate meanings and usage of the terminology. It is important that the terminology is examined so that underlying assumptions be made more explicit. Lack of shared meanings and terminology in the nursing discourse creates confusion for the neophyte researcher and increases the production of studies with weak methodologies. This paper analyses critically purposeful and theoretical sampling and offers clarification on the use of theoretical sampling for nursing research. The aim is not to make prescriptive statements on sampling; rather, to enhance understanding of the differences between purposeful and theoretical sampling for nursing research.
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              The age of extremes: concentrated affluence and poverty in the twenty-first century.

              Urbanization, rising income inequality, and increasing class segregation have produced a geographic concentration of affluence and poverty throughout the world, creating a radical change in the geographic basis of human society. As the density of poverty rises in the environment of the world's poor, so will their exposure to crime, disease, violence, and family disruption. Meanwhile the spatial concentration of affluence will enhance the benefits and privileges of the rich. In the twenty-first century the advantages and disadvantages of one's class position will be compounded and re-inforced through ecological mechanisms made possible by the geographic concentration of affluence and poverty, creating a deeply divided and increasingly violent social world.
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                Journal
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                Revista mexicana de sociología
                Rev. Mex. Sociol
                Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM (México, DF, Mexico )
                0188-2503
                2594-0651
                March 2012
                : 74
                : 1
                : 133-166
                Affiliations
                [01] orgnameUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México orgdiv1Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales cristina.bayon@ 123456unam.mx
                Article
                S0188-25032012000100005 S0188-2503(12)07400100005
                922adce8-65c4-472c-81b7-cfd35f268d97

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 15 November 2011
                : 10 February 2011
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                poverty,inequality,estigmas,representations,imágenes de lugar,representaciones,pobreza,stigmas,experiences,images of place,desigualdad,experiencias

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